Former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Doyin Okupe, has warned that the Action Congress (AC) would take over Ogun State in 2011 if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not restructured in the state before the general election.
Okupe, who spoke to newsmen in Lagos on behalf of the PDP Council of Elders in Ogun, said the state chapter of the party has been destroyed by the state governor, Gbenga Daniel.
Reading a text, which was signed by members of the group led by the former Minister of State for Finance, Senator Martins-Kuye, he called for an immediate dissolution of the executive of the party from the ward to the state levels.
The former presidential aide also cautioned that the PDP would lose Ogun in 2011 general election except the national hierarchy of the party sets up a Caretaker Committee to oversee its activities at all levels with a view to reorganizing and preparing it for future elections.
"There is a wind of change blowing across the South West geo-political zone and we do not want the AC to overrun us in Ogun," he said.
He condemned the arm-twisting tactics being adopted against members of the party by the state government, lamenting that many have lost their lives in the attempt to ensure the survival of internal democracy in the state chapter.
"PDP does not exist in Ogun State. It is only OGD (Otunba Gbenga Daniel) and once you do not belong to the group, you are regarded as an enemy. All semblances of internal democracy have been killed in the party to foster interest and ambition," he stated, adding, "the party is in a state of anarchy while numerous members of the party are now folding their hands and watching events helplessly."
He lamented that the situation has become so bad that the state House of Assembly cannot even sit because of threat to lives and property of members.
He recalled that on February 26 this year, the former Special Adviser to the Speaker of the State Assembly, Fatai Osolake, was mercilessly attacked with machetes at Egbeda in Obafemi Owode local government.
He also noted that the mother of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, was recently attacked by identified officials of Abeokuta South local government during an empowerment programme.
Okupe said that the entire state executive was imposed on members of the party with the result that many stakeholders were disenfranchised from running the party.
"Since the emergence of the handpicked executives, there have neither been any stakeholders or state caucus meeting," he said, regretting that the state Elders Council, which serves in an advisory capacity, was dissolved by the handpicked state executive.
He observed that the Council of Elders lacked the confidence in the ability of Daniel leading the PDP in the state to victory in 2011 and criticized the anti-party activities by those he called "handpicked state executives."

THE POWER-DRUNK PAVES WAY FOR THE OPPOSITION IN 2011.

i remember this statement i laugh in ijebu, cos it has come to pass. up ACN in southwest
expecialy in ogun state